Anticipated Radical Meeting: P.14681-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Anticipated Radical Meeting
HB Sketches No. 121

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Entities

Satirical print

Description

Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). Henry Hunt, seen from behind, his right fist punching the air, speaks to an enthusiastic crowd of Radicals: 'Will the bill I ask, do away with / places and pensions? (cheers) ...'. He stands in a cart with painted lettering on the exterior: 'HUNT'S / MATCH[LESS BLACKING]'. The cart contains blacking jars. Sugden stands at the far left holding a placard with lettering: 'HUNT / THE MATCHLESS / REFORMER'. Other recognisable figures are: Peel, Goulburn, Twiss, Wetherell, Wellington, Ellenborough, Aberdeen, Cumberland, Eldon. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: '_ANTICIPATED_ RADICAL MEETING.'. The publisher's details printed below: 'Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, April 20th, 1831.'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'Printed by C. Motte'. Printed at upper right: 'HB Sketches No. 121'. See 16636,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p. 464.